Colorado Forest Fires

Digging Up The Yard

This is a sure way to ruin an afternoon and spend a $1000 on two inches of pipe.

It's Time For New Shoes

I walked 13 miles through New York City one day and literally and figuratively wore out my damn shoes.  I only had one pair with me so I had to go to a damn shoe store and pay $100 + tax for a new pair of shoes that I didn't want.  It almost ruined my day. If this wasn't such a funny story, I might have been mad.

A Sunday Drive

On Sundays, the Amish go to church at a neighbor's house. After church, they ride through town and head home.

Spider

Today is Just One Lazy-Ass Kind of Day

Something to Remember

Albino Crow

Pocono Wildlife Rehab Center

Stroudsburg, PA

Orgasm

Orgasms

I am with a bunch of old fart women and we are sitting around and talking old fart things: the pains, stiff joints, the arthritis, frequent urination, yada, yada, yada.

Sue fans herself  with a magazine and starts in the hot flash complaint, “Until you have a hot flash, you never really fully understand it.  I remember the first time I had a hot flash.  It came over me so suddenly and it was like “Wow, what’s happening to me”.  I thought I was burning in hell”.

“Yea, it’s like childbirth. You don’t know it until you experience it. You just can’t explain it”, Liz shouts out.

“Same as an orgasm”, Beth chimes in from behind and we all stop what we are doing and just laugh and laugh and laugh.

Damn, It's Time To Go Back To the Grocery and Buy Tomotoes

The end of summer means the end of fresh, ripe tomatoes picked right off the vines.  

DAMN, DAMN, DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dead But Not Forgotten

Even though this tree is dead, its presence still demanded my attention.

I refuse to surrender to the Fall

NO JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DON'T MESS WITH MY SISTER-IN-LAW.

Effective Immediatly, There Will Be No More Conversations Until Feb. 2

We will resume social interactions again after the Superbowl.

Cold Brew Coffee

I recently went to a coffee shop and the barrister wanted $4 for a glass of cold brew coffee.  

 

"What makes cold brew coffee different from a regular cup of coffee, I ask as I begrudgingly had him way too much money for a drink that isn't beer.

"It has a unique taste all of its own because of the process.  Cold brew reduces the acidity", he tells me with a tone that wanted me to believe that a great scientific discovery was frothing from my glass.

"So, how do you make it", I ask in my smart ass voice.

"It's a long process. It takes 8 hours just to brew.  I get cheesecloth and course grain coffee and I fill up a five gallon container and careful cut a four inch square of the cheesecloth which I fill with the coffee and tie the ends with string.  I filter the water twice to get all of the impurities out. Then I carefully drop the cheesecloth into the water and refrigerate it at 36F and let it set overnight.  It's a long process", he assures me once again.

I take my coffee and leave.  When I go home, I find a few coffee packets from a recent hotel stay.  I open one up, drop it in a cold glass of water, put it in my refrigerator and go back to it the next morning.  My cold brew coffee awaited me.

A Happy Buddha

I would be pretty damn happy if all I did was sit around a garden of irises.

Albino Fox

Pocono Wildlife Rehab Center

Cherry Valley, PA

This fox will not be returning to the wild as he can not fend for himself since  he has no camouflage.

Full Moon

 

I sit on the beach and watch the moon light up the river.

 

Need A Lift?

Prior to Hurricane Sandy (2012), it cost $25,000 to raise a house from ground level to 13 feet.  Since the flood, insurance companies have mandated that houses be raised to this level if homeowners want to get flood insurance.  Now, some contractors are charging $75,000 for this same service. There seems to be something wrong with making a big buck off of someone's disaster.

Recycling at the Landfill

We move a lot of garbage around in our lifetime, don't we?

MOIST No More

I always try to remember to do this!!

Climbimg the Stairs

SAY WHAT????????????

American Visual Arts Museum

This is one great museum.  They capture the artistic genius of the invisible artists.  Many of them are mentally ill, criminals, loners, poor or unknown. I've been to this museum about five times and I like it more and more, each time.

Th

Guinea Fowl Egg

Even though they look different, they taste the same as chicken eggs.

A Bunch of Bird Brains

Fading Quickly